CFA Models with a General Factor and Multiple Sets of Secondary Factors

Minjeong Jeon (), Frank Rijmen and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
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Minjeong Jeon: University of California, Los Angeles
Frank Rijmen: American Institutes for Research

Psychometrika, 2018, vol. 83, issue 4, No 1, 785-808

Abstract: Abstract We propose a class of confirmatory factor analysis models that include multiple sets of secondary or specific factors and a general factor. The general factor accounts for the common variance among manifest variables, whereas multiple sets of secondary factors account for the remaining source-specific dependency among subsets of manifest variables. A special case of the model is further proposed which constrains the specific factor loadings to be proportional to the general factor loadings. This proportional model substantially reduces the number of model parameters while preserving the essential structure of the general model. Furthermore, the proportional model allows for the interpretation of latent variables as the expected values of the observed manifest variables, decomposition of the variances, and the inclusion of interactions, similar to generalizability theory. We provide two applications to illustrate the utility of the proposed class of models.

Keywords: multifacet models; bifactor models; trifactor models; proportional models; secondary variance sources; general factor; variance decomposition; generalizability theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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